I'm pretty sure the average age on this board has been 50+ since its formation. Yeah, the market changes but things are hardly dead. Business has been good for me. I sell more rifles than shotguns but both have been moving just fine and plenty of people are taking advantage of the low prices over seas. I'm not quite ready to bury my doubles just yet. Dig might be an optimist but Ted is clearly a pessimist. I'll just keep on keeping on.
Clearly, a realist. The guys who are on the board at age 50, now, are not the guys who were 50 at it’s inception. The renaissance to double guns, circa mid 1980s to 2000, driven by writers and magazines now gone, is clearly over. I didn’t imply that I was getting rid of my doubles, or that anyone else was, either. But, most of us are fairly well settled with what we have. The guys coming up behind us might shoot an O/U at some point, but, that is as close as most of them will get to a double. Nobody is lining up to import new doubles from Europe into the US.
If you want me to believe business is really good, tell me the part about the apprentice you are bringing up to do your work, importing, and buy your profitable business from you.
Best,
Ted
